NASCAR Cup Series: Driver Power Rankings after 2018 Overton’s 400
By Asher Fair
Following the 2018 Overton’s 400 at Chicagoland Speedway, how do the full-time NASCAR Cup Series drivers stack up against one another?
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch earned his fifth victory of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series season and his fifth victory in the last 11 races by winning the Overton’s 400.
Busch won the 267-lap race around the four-turn, 1.5-mile (2.414-kilometer) Chicagoland Speedway oval in Joliet, Illinois in his #18 Toyota in thrilling fashion over second place finisher Kyle Larson, who has now finished in second in four races so far this season without winning a single race in his #42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet.
Busch’s fifth victory of the season ties him with Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick for the most victories among all drivers through the first 17 races of 2018. Only four other drivers have won at least one race so far this year, and two of them have won only one race.
There has not been a new winner in the Cup Series in the 2018 season since Team Penske’s Joey Logano won the race at Talladega Superspeedway at the end of April in his #22 Ford.
How did the results of the 2018 Overton’s 400 affect the NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings? Here are the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings and the non-formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings following the action from Chicagoland Speedway.
To see how the formulated NASCAR Cup Series Driver Power Rankings are calculated, click here.